. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. n59. Grasshopper Mounted. melon, squash, or cuci sucking Insects, the harlequin cabbage bug and the squash stink-bug, are equally as destructive as their biting relatives. The bud- and leaf-feeding Insects are usually readily controlled by spraying some poison on their
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. n59. Grasshopper Mounted. melon, squash, or cuci sucking Insects, the harlequin cabbage bug and the squash stink-bug, are equally as destructive as their biting relatives. The bud- and leaf-feeding Insects are usually readily controlled by spraying some poison on their food, or by hitting them with some oil or soap spray. As the female moths of canker-worms are wingless, a wire trap or sticky bandage placed around the trunk of the tree in the late fall and early spring, to capture the moths as they crawl up the tree to lav their eggs, mil greatly help to check these serious pests The collection and burning of the conspicuous egg rings of the tent caterpillars at inv time between \uguxt ind the fnl lowing April vmII irieiTh rediu e tlu \ isi mimbf rs < t tents or suMii i K t slnttl si s m | | I i li i I Hind pitkiiu I 1 T I I t I T till II of controllm.' tl . i I t . I il , iiii II I indth. s |u li t 1 I 1 1 1 1 11,1 t I li 11 ch. in s ind tpriLots art il worst Insect enemy of thi culio the plum gouger, a works m the pit of plums i fruit m some states "Knot woikof the adults of the quii often ruins the fruit with There is also a grape curculi caterpillar of a little moth. Currants and i,'oo^rli,iri. s : work of two or iliiT. r. caterpillars. A mw- jM'^t ha^ cherry in its menu; it is a tn apple maggot; iutV-sted oher: signs of the presence of th. fly. Mounted. juices within. Various small beetles, known as weevils, are responsible for most wormy nuts. Most of till- fruit rating Insects are out of the reach of the ordinary iii~. , The codling-moth is anoted exception, how. for the peculiar habit that the little ca
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